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171708.4 in reply to 171708.3
Date: 1/21/2011 11:49:38 AM
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Message was written by Finn, and it was about his Lithuanian player Benedikt Kauponen. First, i thought he won smth and renamed his player. Kauponen sounds much more Finnish than Lithuanian.

It definitely has a Finnish ring to it, but it is not from the Finnish list. There are world-wide fewer than 10 known Finnish citizens who have (or have had) this last name, and we therefore have not included it in the database. The records show 74 Finnish men (zero women) with first name Benedikt, 67 of them since year 1900, 37 of whom were born in 1980 or later. I was just bragging that we probably have the best name database, but this first name is not there. So good job on calling my bluff. :-) I may add it, because it's not a "dying name" (i.e. there are several recently born people who have this name).

I checked and it's not from the Estonian or Lithuanian list either.

It seems 95% of Lithuanian names come from the Lithuanian list. If you want to update the list, you need to do some pretty serious research to guarantee that you are really improving the list (this includes applying reasonable weights).

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171708.5 in reply to 171708.4
Date: 1/21/2011 12:03:53 PM
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well... you wanna beat my players name?

asslam..

-_-

so I can bug a local LA to change this name? LOL...

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171708.6 in reply to 171708.3
Date: 1/21/2011 12:29:39 PM
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I am U-21 coach and I remember I got message about young talent. Message was written by Finn, and it was about his Lithuanian player Benedikt Kauponen. First, i thought he won smth and renamed his player


as said before, that could be naturalised player from finnland, the BB included stats about migration into the game so that when there are few fins in Lithuania who could become lithuanian there are also lithuanians with fin names.

And yes the BB names are usually funny, but i enjoy it and it fit to the players who ain't that serious two :)

PS: When i check the real german nationalteam, we have so many foreign surnames in it
Nowitzki - Poland
Schaffartzik - also Poland?
Harris - American(and they got it from England?)
Green - same as Harris
Wysocki - poland
Idhibbi - marocco

and i would say in there was even more foreign names, but the guys are born and raised in the german and they are german ;) Only Yassin Idhibbi stand a bit betwen the cultures, but this included a third country french where he is also connected too.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 1/21/2011 12:35:16 PM

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171708.8 in reply to 171708.7
Date: 1/21/2011 1:07:30 PM
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The worst name database seems to be the Chinese one.

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171708.9 in reply to 171708.8
Date: 1/21/2011 2:57:47 PM
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As WallyOop already said, All name databases are editable by the LAs and GMs.

If you find many wrong names or you think most of the database is wrong, please contact us directly if you know a better name database so that we can see if we can replace it. Otherwise, please try to improve it manually with help from the LAs or GMs.

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171708.10 in reply to 171708.9
Date: 1/21/2011 3:34:20 PM
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No big deal.

In BB Australia our NTs are often half filled with immigrant names from Vietnam, Italy and the Arab countries, sprinkled with some Russians and other ethnicities who live in our wonderful country.

All it is doing is reflecting the multicultural state that our country represents!

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171708.11 in reply to 171708.10
Date: 1/21/2011 10:19:07 PM
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Ok that makes sense because if Drdhayudna is a common Aussie name then I am greatly uninformed.

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171708.12 in reply to 171708.11
Date: 1/21/2011 10:38:22 PM
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Culturally it isn't.

I am a first generation Australian in my family, who are originally from Taiwan. I am just as Australian as any blonde hair blue eyed Aussie. Born and raised in Australia, but just Asian.

They call us Bananas! (Yellow skin, white inside!)

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171708.13 in reply to 171708.11
Date: 1/21/2011 11:14:44 PM
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Ok that makes sense because if Drdhayudna is a common Aussie name then I am greatly uninformed.


It might not be perfect but every Australia player is based on an Australian citizen so it's not like any of the names are just picked at random or made up in any way (and this is the same for every country). I agree that the stereotypical or more common country names could probably be increased a bit but none of them are made up.

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171708.14 in reply to 171708.13
Date: 1/22/2011 11:59:47 AM
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explain trin trin. that is not even a proper name.

Can you smell what the Hobos are cooking... oh wait its just Roger. (18085274)
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